Smartgeiger – Development of Background Radiation Monitoring with IoT based Device

Ionizing radiations have hazardous health effects upon human beings. Different types of cancers and genetic mutations may arise from the overexposure to ionizing radiations like alpha-particles, beta-particles, gamma-rays, x-rays etc. For this reason, it is necessary to measure the background radiation of each place and that can be done by a Geiger Muller (GM) counter. This paper describes the development of a Geiger Mueller counter with ESP32 microcontroller and also a user-friendly dashboard with Node-RED. A microcontroller electronic circuit for the monitoring radiation system with an operation algorithm with micropython programming language is developed.